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town, or Eally Ingianna, with a C. He was pardoned 1581 and 1590, 

 and the place granted to him. His son Philip was hanged and at- 

 tainted for rebellion. Philip had left a son Oliver, and Una Ny 

 Donell Clancie was widow of T. England (Des. R., 23 ; Inq. Exch., 

 11, 49; Fi. 3842, 6464; Hardiman Map 36). 1612 It was 

 mortgaged by Dowell mac Meale Murry (Inq. Chan., 9b). 1655 

 Lower Englandstown, Aid". IS". Panning^ ; Upper, J. M*=E,ory and 

 Brooke Bridges (C.S., p. 68; B.D., 22h). 1669 Granted toOl. Lambert 

 (Act Sett.) Bridges, about 1700, let the C. to the Hewsons.- 



Fabric. — The C. stands on a crag 20 feet high. The remains con- 

 sist of a peel tower, with outworks to the south, which are embodied 

 in the modern house. The tower is 42 feet to 46 feet high, and 

 measures 38 feet by 28 feet outside. The walls are 6^ feet thick, and 

 have a batter for 1 1 feet above the ground and a footing course. The 

 pointed south door leads to a staircase rising up the south and east 

 walls. It is stone-roofed, 7 feet to 9 feet high, and 2^ feet wide, lit 

 by three slits. The tower has another pointed door to the east, and three 

 stories, under a vault, turned over wicker ; they had wooden floors ; 

 the joist-holes remain. The rooms are 25 feet by 15 feet, and are 

 lit by plain slits. The story over the vault was removed about 1750 ; 

 it had a flower garden on top.^ Locally Ballynaglountha, Town of 

 the Glep " ; recte Bally ingianna. 



TOMDEELY. 



297. ToMDEELY (10). Marked. 1201 Tonndaily, held by the 

 Church of Limerick (B.B.L., p. 14 j 1223, and by H. Minetar, who 

 regranted it with Ballymakett and Balidonelin to the Bishop {Ih., 

 p. 28). 1253 Agreement of the Bishop with Marg., widow of 

 Tyrry de Kardyff, about Drumdel (i^., p. 12). 1289 Drimdel manor 

 (PipeB.); it was surveyed, 1336, for Bishop deRupefort (Rental), and 



1 From 1252 a number of records relate to the Limerick Fanyns. Eic. and 

 his wife Rose disseised Sihil Long of her pasture in Glenussin. An Inquis. as 

 to Eva, widow of Ada Fanyn, and lands of Achdun, Bothele, &c. (PleaR., m. 3). 



- For this family see "Memoirs of the House of Hewetson or Hewson," 1901, 

 p. 11. George Hewson held, 1662, Castle Hewsonfrom Brooke Bridge. (He was 

 grandson of George, one of the '49 officers who had settled near Castlecomer.) 

 George got a grant in fee, and married Catherine Peacock of Bamtick, Clare ; her 

 sister, Agnes Southwell, of Eniscouch, had a daughter, who, on her marriage with 

 Lord Wandesford, granted the Rathkeale property to Robert, son of George Hewson. 



^ I have to thank Mr. J. B. Hewson for an admirable elevation and section of 

 this castle, from which and his notes I derive the description. 



